NOMAD DREAMING

On Workers Day (1st May) this year I massacred a white briar rose. It was a planned assault. Let me explain (attempt to assuage my...

It was as if the garden held its breath while I was away in spring, greeting my return with a deep exhalation of blooming, each day...

For two weeks I swam in this lagoon every morning at sunrise. Every day it had a different mood, different lighting, a different greeting...

The remains of a beached whale carcass jutted out of the sand at the beach where the family took the ashes of the one who had gone to be...

" It's an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand...

Those who have the most joy win. Robin Wall Kimmerer in The Serviceberry It was even better in real life and that’s saying a lot because...

“ I’m restless.Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again ” Anais Nin. I have been absent from here a while, ...

On cue, the first Iris germanica (Bearded Iris) bud opened for Holi , the Hindu festival of colors which celebrates spring, and...

I am extraordinarily proud of this bunch of rainbow chard. The plants, from an early October in situ sowing, survived the leaf eating...

In a recent post I mentioned the Hawaiian concept of a place of refuge, safety and sanctuary: a pu’uhonua. The walled back garden, which...

Mornings recently have been suffused with fiery luminosity and everywhere there are signs that the plants, who feast on light, are...

On a recent wandering Wednesday of wonder where I have been attempting to deliberately and consciously explore various public lands in my...

Just two hours from the shala, by road, is the Carrizozo Malpaís , a spectacular landscape of black pahoehoe lava, believed to be among...

Midweek this week the Red Pony and I took to the road to explore some of the public lands in the area. Though I’ve been to them all...

The birds they sang At the break of day Start again I heard them say Don't dwell on what has passed away Or what is yet to be Ah, the...

Lunar New Year is a spring festival in the northern hemisphere. What better way to celebrate than to launch a swarm, a flight, a cluster,...

[ trigger warning: this post might contain cultural commentary. Then again it might not. Define culture. Define commentary.] What does...

No need for a crystal ball to predict that there will be avian unhappiness today. The birds, including bossy Curve Billed Thrasher, are...

The early morning sun cast long shadows, the sky was wraparound cloudless bluebird blue and temperatures hung below freezing as I set out...

Finally: snow! For two days this week we woke to an usually overcast world and bittterly cold, subzero temperatures. Turtleback mountain...